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East Germany

This poster comes out of the old Soviet Eastern Bloc state of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the Cold War. It was released in 1979 by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) as it prepared for the celebration

The German Democratic Republic, as a Soviet State, worked diligently in its forty year span to enforce Soviet ideology, mainly the idea of Socialism. It developed a sophisticated hierarchy to enforce Marxist-Leninist worldview on East-German citizens, meanwhile appealing to Germanic

This cartoon here is titled “American Propaganda” and is a part of a larger series of cartoons that was published by the satirical magazine Ulenspiegel in 1953, which was written in opposition of the west; mainly the U.S. and Western

In Eastern Germany one of the more interesting propaganda campaign was the Yankee Beetle campaign put on by the East German Government. This campaign was targeted at the East German civilians and argued that the large infestation of potato beetles